*(boom boom)

I have to say that of the entire post the thing that stood out for me was also that David referred to his "junk", and…

I like Ben's final words in the [[http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/sep/01/1|Guardian on that story.

These stories do nothing to promote science. They sell products and pay money, misrepresent the notion of doing research, and sell the…

To give a specific example, this is the kind of thing I have in mind.

Perhaps the following…

Does anyone have any examples of postgraduate research that looks, at first glance, a little spurious? You know – the kind of thing that can get disgruntled taxpayers steamed about the way money gets wasted at universities.…

Isograms...and 'subdermatoglyphic' added to the list! (I'll keep thinking for a 16 tho – one of the oddities of my game is – I cant check dictionaries until I've thought of the word...)

I suspect an 18-isogram in English is beyond possibility- but the whole point…

Should have checked they were in real dictionaries.

Apparently what looking for are isograms. According to Wikipedia there is one with 17 letters – subdermatoglyphic but word not in common use.

you can probably squeeze some more performance out of it.

Heh, a man after my own heart. I recently managed to drive…

I decided it was best to carry home the remains and consider a second opinion.

Like a fully operational second hand bike, for which you now have a nice supply of spare parts? After spending the $300, that's all you'll have anyway, minus the spares.

I have also always wanted…

Thanks to Google
No that's cheating!
You probably used scrabblesolver.co.uk when playing online scrabble as well.

islander probably reads all her many dictionaries so was only trying to level the opportunity.

No Kyle, I don't play online scrabble so definitely don't (and wouldn't) use scrabblesolver.

I decided it…

Thanks to Google

No that's cheating!

You probably used scrabblesolver.co.uk when playing online scrabble as well.

(I'm also the one who collects loong words of non-repeating strings of letters in English – go beat 'ambidextrously' – please!)

Okay islander, I'll play.

Thanks to Google there is
CRYPTOGAMIQUES, STYLOGRAPHIQUE and XYLOGRAPHIQUES.

And dear I mention uncopyrightable? (15 letters)

Heh, I used to feel that cycling looked pretty silly

Only since cyclists started dressing like superheroes

I just smile genially at the other people in gyms. It seems to work; I quite often get asked to spot people.…

Ho! So no PoMo fo' loco? Yo!

I think Russell Davies' people would like to have a wee chat with your people to resolve clearance issues first. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZc2zWHG_k&feature=related

And since it's Friday — a pop song where the lyrics were meant to be gibberish!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OffJ9aDYst4&feature=related

__Gadji beri bimba clandridi…

go beat 'ambidextrously' – please

But not in a spa room or a railway station :-)

Innocent (?) comment by prizewinning author leads into superb double entendre: it's another PAS Magic Moment.

(I'm also the one who collects loong words of non-repeating strings of letters in English – go beat 'ambidextrously' – please!)

Perhaps a sign saying "NO PO MO" then.

That's just brilliant.

News junkies, cricket fans & other sickos might enjoy this week's BBC News Quiz. Warning it's not as disturbing as this thread.

, and I'm sure that's not healthy. Isn't slow and steady the better way to do it? I mean, I don't pretend to be any kind of healthy person or expert exerciser or anything, but it just looks so wrong and so dangerous.

Generally, yes, it's wrong and dangerous. But…

Many years ago, in the changing rooms at the Freyberg Pool, I was astonished to look up and see a certain National Party MP scoping my junk with a lecherous grin.

Oh, dear... The last time someone suggested I was laciviously scoping their junk in a changing room, I (rather…

except that we are sold time in the commercial gym as an individual experience. Which is bullshit.

I don't think most gyms make any secret of the fact it's a social experience. But they surely glamorize what kind of experience it will be. The salesperson is usually (in most of…

fundamentally it's a shared space with all the potential angst that comes from being badly dressed and feeling exposed doing stupid things while other people watch.

...You take one dog...
seriously I am off to make mushroom fettuccine and thanks, I will laugh through the rest of my day.:)

I was just with my dogpack, and had an argument about why it's okay for women not to like their bodies.

See, I argue with my dogs about why they shouldn't be barking, coming and going when they don't want to, and about not stealing food.

Clearly your dogs are…

I was just with my dogpack, and had an argument about why it's okay for women not to like their bodies.

See, I argue with my dogs about why they shouldn't be barking, coming and going when they don't want to, and about not stealing food.

Clearly your dogs are…

It was well-meant, anyway.

It's certainly better than the usual free-form hostility.

Afterwards he very grudgingly admitted I was quite fit for my age – the stress very much on the…

Let's just call everyone ANdrew from now on.

:)

Perhaps a sign saying "NO PO MO" then.

Now THAT's a gym I'd sign up for.

Just stay away from the Ayn Rand gym. They have a strict "philosophers will be escorted off the premises" policy.

Perhaps a sign saying "NO PO MO" then.

Well I liked the hands one. Not that I could possibly comment.

There see STuart? It pays to share the opportunities :)

Well I liked the hands one.

Thank you, thank you, I'm on again at 9, try the veal etc

Andrew beat me to it.

Well I liked the hands one. Not that I could possibly comment.

the facilities and the equipment are bloody good.

Yes, back in the day, they had a workshop that made their own equipment.Not sure about now but.I even played a role in that for a while with making the ankle and wrist weights, which people took to taking home.I am now…

Perhaps it's the chances of catching athletes foot in the wrong places.

Don't stand so close to them when they're in full flight!

it's the chances of catching athletes foot in the wrong places.

That's a rather recherche preference.

In my experience most people in gyms are less than fit-looking. That's why they're there. The only…

Clearly, rather than sex-segregated changing rooms, what we need is Fucking and Non-Fucking.

Maybe I'm a hopeless romantic, but there's something about a gym changing room that doesn't really turn me on. Perhaps it's the chances of catching athletes foot in the wrong places.

I was astonished to look up and see a certain National Party MP scoping my junk

Maybe he was looking at the size of your.... hands.

Your tastebuds will start to tingle when you hear his happy jingle

it was that building on the intersection of Crummer Rd and Ponsonby. The ASB trust building is on the other corner. It'll bug me now till I know.

Ah, it would be this one, which one of my Flickr pals thinks was called the Pink Palace.

That's the one, Robyn.…

DON'T
FUCK

I know a bloke who could print you up one of those lovely, for cheap.

Slight diversion: at one point, my gym partner won Mr Gay Wellington. I mentioned this to a couple of other friends who didn't know the…

Ooh, that Frosty Boy.

I can – and often do – still sing the jingle. 'Frosty Boy, Frosty Boy, the things he brings are packed with joy!'

Oo-er, matron.

A pair of what?

Clearly I need to rediscover my cajones. I used to be able to reel this stuff off.

Why shrink (fnaar!) from spelling it out? [...] I wouldn't feel troubled to read such things on a sign, and frankly, I think it would not hurt for modern business to grow a pair.

A pair of what?

(I hasten to add that the capitalisation was in the original. I'm not one to wink wink nudge nudge a subtext into the foreground when it's doing perfectly well on its…

And I tend to keep away from any menu item featuring the chef's special sauce.

Here's something serendipitously apposite... today I was idly perusing a 1914 New Haven city directory, which contains a full-page ad for The Semon Ice Cream Co., the "finest ice cream plant in America." I cannot…

That said, I was a bit of a gym bunny at Les Mills Wellington in the early nineties. Never went back after some kind of proposition in the shower one time. Might be different now, but gyms by definition are narcissist magnets.

When I told a workmate about I was…

fnaar!

And here was me thinking, fnord!

That sign is rather like something the MGT would write in the Illuminatus Trilogy.

That said, I was a bit of a gym bunny at Les Mills Wellington in the early nineties. Never went back after some kind of proposition…

*(boom boom)

Perhaps one of the great challenges of drafting good law is finding the point at which you strike strike the ideal balance between generality and specificity.

I think what irks…

Why shrink (fnaar!) from spelling it out? I'm guessing: making unwelcome sexual advances, taking a long lingering look around the changing room, taking snapshots and, perhaps, if you're not too tired after all that Pilates, having sex

I learnt from Heather Champ in the communities workshop at Webstock that posting…

Don: you looked past the word 'trying'. He makes 1.35 look effortless.

I thought the Lone Star was a steak house.

You've never asked for the special, clearly.

I thought the Lone Star was a steak house.

You should see the "sides" menu.

Actually, that reminds me of what you got when you ordered "Big Chicken" from this place I came across in Thailand. (Not steak, nor women).

trying to maintain face alongside Rob Waddell on the rowing machine;

You kept face? Do murmuring hearts attract?

What is/was the best little whorehouse in NZ?

I have never left Lone Star without feeling I have been royally screwed.

Don't be shy now!

Yes, that's my big problem.

But I heard it became a (really bad, apparently) brothel.

Bad brothels are a dime a dozen. Anyone can run a bad brothel. We need to celebrate good brothels more. What is/was the best little whorehouse in NZ?

Many years ago, in the changing rooms at the Freyberg Pool, I was astonished to look up and see a certain National Party MP scoping my junk with a lecherous grin.

I'd hazard a guess as to who was checking out your sugarlumps, but I suspect it's (ahem) academic...

And…

Ah, it would be this one, which one of my Flickr pals thinks was called the Pink Palace.

The weird thing for me is that I can only ever think of that place as one of the only Greek restaurants to ever grace Auckland. I went there a number of…

there were no "ladies"

But lots of Gentlemen?

it was that building on the intersection of Crummer Rd and Ponsonby. The ASB trust building is on the other corner. It'll bug me now till I know.

Ah, it would be this one, which one of my Flickr pals thinks was called the Pink Palace.

the San Francisco Bathhouse for any combination of: game of pool, sauna, refreshing glass of orange juice and a Nutoata bar. It was also a knocking shop, but they didn't seem to mind that we weren't there for that.

When we were going there (for the saunas too), there were…

We left the pool when a rain-coat man arrived (sans rain-coat). I was really glad they had good showers. Equals my visit to a seedy strip club. Lots of men in the front row in rain-coats and us,

Soo....., it was raining right?

.....I'll get my jacket...

The original San Francisco Bathhouse in Welly

In 1979, we lived just around the corner from there, in a house in Athol Crescent, off Boulcott Street. We would often have a meal at the Casabalanca Steakhouse in the old style – plate of white buttered bread, T-bone steak, potato salad,…

I am acquainted with the spa pool in the womens' quarters of Les Mills

See.... now I can't remember the womens at all. Shit. (Hello Mrs Armstrong :))

Perhaps they share Queen Victoria's supposed view that women don't do such things (and I say "supposed" because that particular view, which was ascribed to Victoria, was…

You aren't the only one who had that experience with that particular National MP. I'm…

I'm appalled.

:)

From the way an ex-gf told it, the place that really needs to watch the inappropriate behavior is the girl's change room, in which total bitchiness about appearance sounds like the norm. My…

What really attracts me to my gym is the Olympic-sized spa pool. It is a subterrannean marvel. It sits below a low concrete ceiling at the rear of the changing rooms;

I remember that pool well (don't ask me how I know) and did you know, there wasn't one in…

"Nineteen, eighteen, seventeen... no, you're not supporting your back properly. Here, watch me..."

And dude, when Paul Verhoeven remakes the Grapes of Wrath, I'm confident there'll be a hot tub scene. Possibly involving Elizabeth Berkley.